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Item Details
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THE DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS
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| By: |
Gustave Flaubert, Gregory Norminton (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£1.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0714546372 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780714546377 |
| Publisher: |
ALMA BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
16 May, 2017 |
| Series: |
Alma Quirky Classics |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant even today. |
| Synopsis: |
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched with darkly humorous explanations. A playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant even today. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Alma Classics |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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